Vol. 3, No. 3. , Monday, 16th March, 1931. Price : 3d.

It is not easy to suggest anything to the hungry-time comes you can go Work, Thrift, and Rain. help them at present. to your store and take out some to go -+ on with. But at present Pnpuans N the last, issue we spoke Storing Food. about Hard Times; and I hope that someday the people of don't seem to want to grow rice; and we said that hard times Papua will learn to grow the sort of they grow very little corn ; and at any in Australia did not mean rate they would not know how that the Papuan natives to use the corn seeds if they nee a suffer much. Re- did store them. So what is member that for you there are three there to do ? 3 .. wportant things. On the one hand Sago and " Lakatoi." '.$>ere are Work and Thrift (or Sav- ing) ; on the other hand there- is the As for the Motu people and their Season (or the Rainfall). You have neighbours, we hope that later on to trust to luck about the Rainfall; this year they will not fail to send but there is no luck about Work or away their lakatoi. There is always Thrift. They are always good things plenty of food in the Gulf and the and necessary things. If you work Purari Delta. If the women make and save, you will be more ready for pots and?£ the men take the trouble the bad Season when it comes. to make lakatoi, you can get enough A Bad Season About rry you through the hungry Port Moresby. Now in most parts of Papua Some villages sent no lakatoi this the people always get plenty of year. Why ? Some men said they rain. (In many parts they get were afraid of the pu.mpuri of the far more than they want). But Koiari men. That is all nonsense. there are other placeswhere they some- Big men who could be captains of times get too little rain. And this lakatoi turn into silly old women year there has been too little rain when there is talk of Koiari pu.ripuri. along the coast above and below Port The Government are sad to think Moresby. that after so many years the Motuans It has, in fact, been a"Bad Season." still believe that puripuri could spoil The hot sun has burnt up the gardens, and the yams and taitu have in some Then there are some who say they places died in the ground ; and some fear the rough sea itself: they think of the people are feeling anxious about KAIVA KUKU MASK. of the Vaiviri, and say, "Not for me ! " food. The Councillors from Porebada Well, that is a great pity too. Your and Eholasi, fro111 Kilakila, Pari and food that can be stored for a lollg time. fathers used to send lakatoi long Vabukori, and from Gaile have come Wheq they have learnt to grow rice before the white man came. They in to see the Magistrate in Port and corn they will not need to go were not afraid of the wind and the Moresb~and to tell him all about it. hungry. For you put your rice and waves. It will be bad luck for the This is all very bad luck for the corn in a safe place; you don't eat Motu women of to-day if their men People whose gardens have failed. all of it in a hurry; and then when are frightened of the sea. 18 THE PAPUAN VILLAGER.

Perhaps it is too much trouble to THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. A Porebada " Lakatoi." make a lakatoi. But that can't be - true. It is worth a lot of trouble to

Saving Money. But if people cannot store enough One of the pictures shows Rakata food for a bad season there is another The almost black skin of the Hippo- potamus is thick and leathery and is a Maraga of Porebnda counting up th way of saving. This way is by saving bundles of sago withMarasi of Ua money. Of course you have first to protection to hini from other animals. Even the lion finds his thick hide too Rakatani had given him 35 pots find ways to make money and you an am-shell; and he had in ret have to work hard. Then when you tough! He himself feeds only on vegetables and what a lot of sweet 35 kokohara bundles of sago an have got the money you can put it in big go~ugoruof sago. YOU can your box (or, better still, in the Bank) potato tops it would take to fill his great mouth ! What a mess he wonld these men in the picture sticking t and keep it. When your food is kahi or tally-sticks into each bundl finished you take out some of your make of your gardens should he as they count them. money and buy rice or flour. come one night to feed there ! For he tramples down as well as eats the The lakatoi had 5 big dug-outs and But here again you must think a crops, making a snorting noise as he it was well loaded. Bodibo and Sisia long way ahead. Do not wait till goes. His huge feet do far more had been burning their keikei pot you are hungry before you begin to damage than all the food he edts ; and every day; and we hear that th make money. Make it whenever you when he comes he does not come lakatoi got safely home to Porebad can, and put it by. alone, for these animals live in Some of you can make copra, or families and packs, sometimes as dive for shell ; some can sell fruit and many as 40 at time. Just think fish and vegetables to the white what your gardens would be after The Scout Rally. Sinabadas; some can cut firewood such a visit. One Hippopotamus is -- and carry it up to the houses; some as big as perhaps 20 bush pigs. HE Chief Scout, Lord Baden can make ornaments or toy canoes or T Powell, has visited Australiawith model houses which visitors to Papua During the day they nearly always Lady Powell; and the Boy Scouts are glad to buy; some of you have stay in the water. They may lie near and Girl Guides will be joining in been taught to do carpentry and cane the banks only partly under water, or "rallies " to meet him. Two scouts work, and you can make chairs and they may sleep in pools with only from Poreporena have gone down by tables for the white people. You their eyes and noses showing, some- the Morinda to the rally at Brisbane. should take every chance you can to thing like crocodiles. At night they The two lucky boys chosen. are Arua make money, and not only when you do all their travelling and can go long Gavera(who works in the Government happen to need it; make money at distances. Such short legs for such plumber's shop), Lohia Udu (who other times when there is plenty to long walks ! They have been known works in the B.N.G. Company). In eat and y~uare having an easy time. to go 25 miles in a single night. The next issue we hope to tell something Save your money. The time may mother animal when crossing the of what they saw and did in Brisbane. come when you will need it badly. water places her baby on her back. If frightened she goes under the water, but can only stay down 2 minutes for she must rise for the baby to breathe ! Steamers in Port Moresby. " Medals for The " Vaiviri It must be a very strange sight to see __*__ Heroes. a herd of these big fat creatures URING March there will have swimming across a river with their D been five big boats in Papuan HE Lloyd's Medals for Igua eyes and noses just above the surface. waters. The Morinda arrived on the T Kevnu and Gari Dai have been 5th, the Le Maire on the 7th; the sent to His Excellency the Governor. -"C. W." Carisso will arrive on the 17th from He will present them to these two [Hippopotamus is said to be " the largest represent- America, the Havre on the 18th from men when he comes back by the next ative of the non-ruminating artiodactyle ungulate mammals." This only means it is a distant relntive Singapore and the Barmcombe, a Morinda. of the pig. Ed.] copra boat, about two days later. MARCH, 1931 E PAPUAN VILLA(

,Earthquakes, Tidal Waves, Fiji. The sort of wind that knocks GLIDING. and Hurricanes. everything over, lifts tile roofs off houses, and pulls trees up by the roots, - E have seen so many flying - is called a "hurricane." Re don't machines in Papoa that we An Earthquake in Papua. W get them in Papua. A good blow are sometimes quite tired of hearing N Tuesday, the 24th of last frorn the South-East map pull a bit about them. Yet whenever we hear () month, an earthquake was felt of your hair out, and it may wreck a one we rush out to see it fly overhead. in Port Moresby. It happened dur- few canoes, but it doesn't knock your ing the night, and it was big enough All the flvinn ., " rrlachines which we village to pieces. This hurricane in have seen here have engines inside to make the plates rattle on the Fiji did a great deal of damage. It shelves and to wake some people out them. The engine sends a propeller wrecked some Europeail houses ; but round very fast. It is something like of their sleep. It lasted half a perhaps the worst thing it did was to minute. the propeller of a launch, but instead spoil a great deal of the banana crop. of pushing a boat through the water We are very lucky in Papua. We it pulls an aeroplane through the air. do liot get bad earthquakes and And the engine makes a very big noise. hurricanes and tidal waves. But see what happens in other places in the Play at Lawes College.. But now they have been trying a Pacific Ocean, sometimes not very new method of flying and this new far away. OME time ago when the Gov- kind of aeroplane has no engine and An Earthquake in New Zealand. S ernor visiled Lawes College, the no propeller and it makes no more students performed a Play. They noise, in fact less noise, than a bird New Zealand once again has been dressed up and gave their Play in the flying through the air. Another nice visited by terrible earthquakes. Many Papuan style. First an old woinan thing about it is that you don't have big villages or towns have been was seen sitting down by herself and to pay for petrol. damaged, and many people have making string. Then four fighting been killed. It is called a " Glider." You have men appear. They creep nearer and all noticed how some sea-birds can The town of Napjer has suffered nearer to the old woman, who goes on most. Within nine hours there were travel without beating their wings up making her string. Suddenly she and down like a pigeon. They can more than 55 earthquakes, one after sees them and jumps up; and they another. You know., that in ,the go faster than a launch, for they sweep are upsn her in a moment. The past $'and turn round',and catch it white men's towns most houses are widow fights hard against the four built of stone. In Napier all these up again. And they do this with warriors but they soon kill her. Then hardly any movement of their wings. stone houses were shaken down to one of them, a vada man, brings her the groucd. There were many wooden back to life. He nearly succeeds, for Whitemenhavealways beenpuzzled houses, and these too were destroyed. the woman sits up again. But then over this. And we all envy the sea Then fire broke out and swept she falls back in a heap. bird. Some of us in the night time through the town. More than 2,000 Now one of her relatives comes up, can fly through the air; and very pleasant and easy we find it. But people lost their lives. and the four bad men take to their heels. Thevillage Policeman is called then we wake up and find it was all tidal Wave in . a dream. We read (in the Islands and he goes to get the Armed Police Paczfi,fic Now the white man is making that Mon.tl~Ly) of a tidal wave on the and a Magistrate. The four men are dream come true. He has invented shores of New Guinea. (This is not soon caught and then we see the Papna, but the country to the north Magistrate holding Court, with a talk- the l' Glider." It is something like of us). As usual the tidal wave ative interpreter to help him. The an aeroplane to look at. It has wide came after an earthquake. It swept Magistrate's cook boy and the wit- wings and a box for the pilot to sit in. He starts from the top of a hill ; runs the coast for 40 miles and wiped out nesses are all there ; and the four bad down the slope ; and finally makes the a mission station and a trading men are sent off to gaol in Daru. glider leave the ground and rise into The Governor a~idall who saw the settlement. Six natives lost their the air. Then he can soniehow make lives and three were hurt. On a Play enjoyed it; and they agreed it the air and the wind lift and carry small island named Awinn the houses wasvery well done. We publish some were washed away and cattle were pictures of the players kindly sent by him. carried out to sea. The manager and Mrs. Turner. A great many people are trying the plantation boys had to climb Mrs. Turner sent another picture this new method of flying in Europe. palms to save their lives. which we have not been able to Recently an Austrian pilot travelled This happened on Christmas eve. publish. It shows Tom Naugaleva, 93 rr~ilesin one flight in his glider; We can feel thankful that this Gomara, Tano, and Raka Edea, all of and he reached a height of 7,000 ft. Christmas present did not come to the Central Division. That is more than half the height of Papua. Mount Victoria. When Mrs. Turner wrote in Jan- A Hurricane in Fiji. uary, she and her husband were in mIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllll1111111111111111111llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllm Towards the end of last year a Sydney. They hoped soon to go off "THE PAPUAN VILLAGER " BOUND VOLUME, 1930.3s. NOW OBTAINABLE v terrible wind swept over part of to New Zealand. FROM THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER 22 THE PAPUAN VILLAGE R. MARCH, 1931.

FIJIAN DOCTORS. water begins to boil. Mr. Smith did The Biggest of all Maps. 1 P+- this and found that he and his men __e_ 012 mally years there have been werfe 13,175 ft. above sea level. T Chicago, in America, they are F native doctors in Fiji. It is more A going to hold a " Century of than 40 years since the white doctors Progress Exhibition." That means- first began to train them ; and since Goods Through the Post. that they are going to have a big show;. that time many Fijians have worked - so that people can come and see the- as doctors among their countrymen. HE Post Office is having wonderful things that have been don One of them, Dr. Wilisoni was for T trouble with boys who order by America in the last hundred some years at Salamo, the Methodist things from Or Brisbane by Part of the sl~pwis ,a may 0 Mission Head-quarters in Papua. post. The goods come by America. It is not drawn on pa that is Value Payable Post. This it is laid out on the ground. In the at means that you pay when the parcel T there are now 35 students. to say, the earth is built up and shap reaches the Post Oficein Port Moresby like the United States of America. They have to work hard and long or sarnarai. before they are allowed to go out as whole island in Lake Michigan is us doctors. For they are not " medicine But a parcel comes for for the map. There will be mountai men." They have to learn to do the boy and he has and rivers, volcanoes and waterfal same sort of work as the white doctors pay it. Then the Office And they will a11 be working. T do ; and for four years they are under not let him have lakes will be filled with real wat very wise and skilful teachers. When you ask a store to send you and real water will be running throu Someday wemay seePapuandoctors by post you have the rivers. Little trarns will car as good as these Fijians. enough money to pay when it comes. the visitors here and there across t If boys fail again and again to bring map. In the you have some their money, then by and by the stores The scale of your map in T good medical who do . may get tired. In fact one store Villager the work they have to do. Pap~ran is about 60 miles wrote by this mail and said : " Owing one inch, or 720 miles to one foot to the number of V.P.P. Parcels The map of the United States is that have been returned froni the the scaleof one mile to one foot. T Climbing Mount Victoria- Islands and the postage on same be- island is 3,000 ft. long and 1,500 f . +- ing very high we have discontinued wide. R. S. E. Smith, the Patrol Oficer sending goods by this method of M in charge of Kambisi, climbed transit to the islands.'' to the top of Mount Victoria not long 1f you a letter to a store and -3 %g0. The two highest mountains in Government Officers. 3 order something for another boy, see __t_ Papua are Mount Victoria and Mount that he gives you the money first. ~t 2 A1bert Edward. They are of very R. Bastard has gone on leave? sometimes happens this way; you and Mr. Horan is in charge at much the same but perhaps send orders for your friends, and then M : Victoria wins by a little bit, or as Buna. Mr. Woodward has returned ! ,hen the time comes they have no to Daru and Mr. Zimmer is on leave. 'say, by a "short head." 'You money. Then probably you cannot 4 will find them on your new map be- own parcel. Mr. Claude Champion has returned : tween the Central Division and the get fromleaveandgone to Tufi. Mr. Smith Northern Division. When your order things by V.P.p. ' has gone on leave and Mr. Middleton " you are not getting something for goes to Karnbisi in his place. Mr. Smith took with him Lance- nothing. youmust be able to pay. Corporal Pakai, Armed Constables Mr. Faithorn from Kairuku relieves Biri and Ibara. and 18 carriers-l0 Mr. Middleton in charge of the Gaol from Boini and'~osisi,and 8 from the in Port Moresby. Xr. Sands has gone Dilava Valley. A Fall from a Telephone Post. to Kokoda to relieve Mr. Healy, who goes ,on leave. Tbclinha Papuan mountain means HE other day one of the tele- hard work. You have to cut the way T phone boys had a narrow escape. through the thick timber, for there Helai Morea of Porebada was at work are no good tracks. In the higher on top of one of the poles near the A Feast at Kewansasaf. parts you have to climb over the school in Port Moresby. He was __e_ fallen tree trhks, which are covered helping to strain the wires when the ANDOLPH Namuri, Teacher at with moss, like whiskers. But the post began to fall over. Helai might R Kewansasaf has written that very highest parts are open country, have been killed, but instead of that some of the people lately made a feast covered with grass. $e came down like a bird in a tree ; there to Inark the new Barracks beside The party reached the top of the for the fall of the post was broken by the Mission Station. They provided mountain on Sunday, the 2ndNovern- this tree and by the wire netting 3 pigs, 100 fishes, 2,054 yams, 140' ber. You can tell the height of a round the school tennis court. Helai banana bunches, 1,510 potatoes, 81 mountain by boiling water and seeing was not hurt and was soon at work taro. 3 wallabies. 10 ~otsof rice and r L at what heat or " temperature " the 10 p'ots of food. -MARCH. 1931 THE PAPUAN VILLAG The soil near Poreporena and on the back of forest, searching high and low. Sometimes DISTRICT NEWS. the bills is not very good. We had all better in vain, but if he comes across any tracks his (From our own Correspondents.) go to the Laloki and make our gardens there, exciterrient becomes great. With catlike KAIRUKU. and we will not be short of food. Garia-Vagi, eagerness he follows on all fours, making the (Correspondent- Leo Altsi Parau.1 Gavera-Arua, and Ahuia-Ova, have very good least noise, through thick undergrowth, heavy Station. gardens at Laloki River, and I hope that all vines, ferns, thorns, and even through water, UR Station gardens are growing fairly the plants which they have plaiited in their to where the animal's tracks are leading too. '0 well now. In the new garden the rice gardens are producing well, and they will find When he comes to a thick and wide stretch bas sprung up now and looks well, and we some food this year. of heavy cane grass surrounded with heavy hope the result will be good. Our private People Can Help Themselves. scrubs, he stands erect and motionless for a gardens are also doing well, and will bear in while to listen. Then he examines the tracks some few months time. There are many th~ngsfor people to do, to more careiully. By experience he knows that The Station Staff. help themselves. All the villages, heach and he is near the lair of the anitnal. With keen otherwise, could surely get to work and cut eyesight he watches for the least movement One Taztbada (Mr. W. H. H. Thompson, firewood and sell it. But they sit on their forward, keeping a distance away from its A.R.M.) ; 1 Corporal, Kadi and 10 Armed back-sides and do nothing. They allowed lair. He forms a sort of a circle round the anstables of which (3) three are locals of IIula people to take hundreds of pounds a lair, and if the tracks don't lead any further Karuama,Mount Yule District : 1 Interpreter; year from a markeL that, owing to itsproxim~ty to the opposite end of the stretch of heavy 1 Warder; and myself (Native Clerk.) to their villages, they could easily make their cane grass he marks the spot for the pig-nets, Patrolling District. own. and with confidence he makes haste for the In January, Mr. Thompson visited the village, to break his good news. Mekeo and Roro ( Waima and Kivori Districts), There is plenty of trouchus-shell and beche- de-mer on the .reefs off Port Moresby. If A.fter he has told the villagers of the exact collecting taxes. But many of the people had spot of the wild hog's lair and of the circle he no money (as they say). All were warned they get them and sell them in Port Moresby. they will get good money, and they can has formed, in single file they start for their to make Copra and get the money, for the hunt, the tracker leading. When they arrive next coming round of the A.R.M. support their wives and children, and they will find themselves living happily. the tracker gives the positions for the nets. General. After they have brought their nets round the The people of Waima, Kivori, and Bereina. We must go on and do some work and help circle mentioned, they tie both ends against have mule someth~ngnow of their Village ourselves, instead of coming to the Govern- a tree and they put light sticks on their nets Plantations. The Waima, and Kivoris have ment for help. to keep them erect. The tracker then com- planted a good many, which were inspected mences with his tracking until he sights the by the A.R.M., and in a few years they will movements of the now bewildered animal. look very nice. In between the coconut He beats it off its lair and with wild shouts lines, the people have planted taitu, yams, the animal rushes with madness into the nets. sweet potatoes, etc. It struggles with ferocity for liberty. After the pig gets exhausted, with bloodshot eyes it " The ~&rabadaarrived from Port ~ore$b~ Wild Pig Tracking- in the Wilds of an the 27th January and left the same night the Mekeo District. turns to meet its foes, who by then are wild for Kerema, Kikor~and Daru. They returned with excitement. But by keeping cover in to Kairuku on the 2nd February about 6 pm. IRST of all I will let you know a bit the nearby trees from behind the pig they and left on the 3rd with a load of F about this Mekeo people bebre I relate crawl up to it with catlike movement. They for Badili Gaol from the Station. Our my story on Pig Tracking. pounce on it and with weight of numbers they bring it powerless to the ground. When a Taubadn, Mr. W.H. H. Thompson, went into Mekeo in the plains of Central Division is Port Moresby by her to see the Doctor, also full grown pig gets tangled it is sometimes a inhabited by numerous people known as the dangerous task to tackle it, as it will strike Mr. S. E. Smith, of the Kambisi Police Camp, Pioufas and Fe-es. A river known as the who was going on leave. with lightning rapidity at any object from its (St. Josephls) Paimumu River separates these fearsome tusks, causing serious accidents at two big tribes. And long before whitepeople times. Then with war whoops and shouts of came these two tribes were very hostile victory the conquerors return to the village. PORT MORESBY. against each other, alway engaging in tribal lCorrespondent -1go Brua.1 warfare. And, as the saying goes, the After the tracker consults with the Chief, Shortage of Food-Port Moresby Pioufas always had the upper hand, holding and, if he decides they bring it to the Ufu District. sway of the land, as they had some daring Api-e their next door tribes, with food, taros, wrote an article in the last Papwln Villager warriors, and being proud to be the owners sugar-cane, coconuts. bananas, yams and I stating that the prospects for tbe year of the biggest and most populated villages on potatoes ; next day the festival commences. were good. the plains. From an offical estimation, The women get busy with the cooking while Be-eipa-a the biggest village contains about the men get decorated with shells and plumes On the 6th December, 1930. I was ac- 1,100. But now the land is influenced by the and painted in the gayest. ~ompaioedby Jimmy Williams and Heni- Nioke and two other boys hunting, and I saw Government. It leaves a, big hunting land Sometimes two or three home pigs are given a few gardens at the back of the hills were with numerous game, and the home of the with the wild one. When everything is ready producing well, and all bhe plants I saw were beautiful Bird of Paradise and Goura Pigeon. the Chief from the next door tribe distributes nice and green. But about a month later Well, now I will proceed with my story of the meat and food to one and all, never for- word was received by the R.M., C.D., that the several methods of wild hog hunting and getting the spectators present from the neigh- the Poreporena villages are short of food, and how it is tracked. The first thing the Mekeon bouring villages. The jaw and fattest portion everybody will be hungry this year. does when he gets up of a morning at the of meat goes to the guardian of the village break of dawn is to give his eyes a good rub (the Chief Sorcerer) lest they die. Never do Laloki Gardens. they deprive him, as that's a native custom. instead of a wash; a long yawn ; a good The Government have already told the After everything is consumed then the next people to go to Laloki River. There are smbke of kuku ; and betel-nut chewing. He is ready for his day's task. door Chief gathers his people and then they hundreds and hundreds of acres there for consult ahout another hunt in return payment. them to make gardens. But the people are Conditions are more favourable for him if Such is life in Mekeo, the home of the too much afraid of puripuri (Sorcery). If rain happens to shower of a night, which of beautiful Bird of Paradise and Goura Pigeon. the people make their gardens on the banks course makes the animal's track visible. Then Good-bye Readers. Qf Laloki River they can find plenty of water. luck never prevails him against odds. Armed [By E. R. Albaniel, St. Patrick's School. This and all the plants will not be dying out. with a spear and knife he sets out for the story wins the 5s. prize this month.] 5 24 THE PAPUAN VILLAGER. MARCH, 193$*14 4 'X 2.-

* 1 The Story of Kangaroo. these two men's mother had been buried. Border). It was'nt very far from our landing: ; -. This man Nalrne Arua Kaokaona marvelled place, or from where we started, it wag when he saw these Kangaroos, there were so something hke 6 or 7 miles walk. HERE were two men lived at Hanuabada many. 10 and Ae told the man, "These Dur~ngour stay there, that first evening,: T (their names 10 and Ae) with their Kangaroos were our mother's blood. When mother; (and the mother's name is Avia- we noticed that, just after the sun set a conch , Auru-Kanikani). Their iduhu called Gunina. you hunt and throw your spear we w~lldodge was blown by one of the men of the village, i They lived at Hanuabadn till their mother it. But thenet is like spider's house. Wben p asked one of them the reason. He said;.: we are in the net we will marvel." Avia-Auru-Kanikani died. Neat morning the That is Lo let everybody know that ~t 18 ' two men carried their dead mother and went [By Ome Havao. Teacher, L.M.S., Geabnda.] time for the Evenins Praver " We askeg ;i to Gaire and Kapakapa. In the afternoon them how often they do this. They sn~d,~$ they bring the dead mother againto Hanua- Buying Betel-Nut. l' Every morning and night." Bext mornlng 4 c 3 boda. A man Kohu Heni of Hanuabada got -A---- ' they did the same. A7 an arm-shell andgave it to the men, and they E left Port blgresby fonDaru. We came They had a teacher once at Buji who used:.? buried the dead mother, there. And these W to and we sleep there. to visit them regularly. Since that they sr6.$1 two men sang a song for their dead mother. Wednesday, 10th October we left Yule Island ; still believing in the Great Spirit. Not onl;;$ Kohu Heni asked th~m,"What did you cat ? " came to Kukipi : we sleep there. Thursday that, they have also sent their young meer.-B They said to him, We did not eat sweet llth, left Kukipi for L.M.S.. Au~na. Some out further into other dark villages with the-38 yams and sago, but we eat only young coco- L.M.S. boys, their master too. they came to news of this Great Spirit in whom we all!# nut." In next day the men dug up the dead the ship with the wail (whab) boat, took their believed. mother. and came to Boera. A man, Homosi mail and some cargo too. Then three little '[B~William Tabua, Teacher, L.M.S., Da Daure of Boera gave them a necklace (tmtao), boys they came to the ship with their canoe, and they buried the dead mother at Boera. to buy some tobacco. They got five bundles From One Cricketer to Another. In the night time when the man was asleep of betel-nuts and they thought they would get . .. they dug up dead mother and went, and came five sticks of tobacco. And one boy (his to a village called Gabadi. One of the village names is M----)he had ha!: stick of tobacco. EA MEA of the Government Printing. men Ure Vato gave them some of the dogs' Then M -said to them, Ah! Briy it up, R Ofice has received a letter from hia teeth (rlodoma), and they buried the dead all that betel-nut to me." They said, Xara." friend,,Mahuru Mark, of Kwato. The writer mother in that village. After one day they Then h1 --- he gave the b~lfstick of tobacco says, And when I read my letter, I am very dug it up again, and came to a village called to them. And they said, .4h ! why did you glad, because I heard you everybody trying' Ala-ala. There a man named Naime Arua, of not gi~eus five sticks of tobacco ?" M-- very hard to play cricket. And I heard you Ala-ala, gave them birds' feathers ; and they said, Ah, you go on, go on, I knock you play against white men, at Christmis dayys: buried the dead mother there. minute." Then they cry and screamed until And new cricket ground also ! Will you tell (Thisstory has to be cut short. Io ad Ae they had gone back to home. . After, shouted hoys to play well, and play carefully, so you, went on receiving presents a~zdburying their and shouted to M-until gone the home.' will he good cricketers in the future. And mather and digging her up again. The?/ did [By Noga Koi, of Mailu Island. We have cut out follow what Mr. Hurler said. this at Orai, dbzcku, Aravure, aid many "M's." name. His manners were very bad. Ed.] On Saturday we played ' vzlhrges 218 Kzwvri. They got " kiapns," a7m- went in first, making 123 runs, all ou shells, nwre feathers and necklaces). A.Trip to the West. Kwato, made 191 runs for 2 wickets, After one day they dug it up again and came not out, 101. That is very goodluckfor to another zduhu of Kivori. There a man - Dear friend, try hard and make 100. A S T year in November some of the Arua Naime Kaokaona of Kivori, gave them L teachers and myself had a very good make too much duck eggs like you an arm-shell in Maiva language Ha'avt (the holiday trip to Mabudawau. We slept there Christmas. Give my love to all bo arm-shell is small and round) ; and they buried one night. Next day we left, then passed a also your sisters Lusi, and Konio, it in the place called Eme. little,villags called Sigabaduru, and linded at yourself. I hope you will call us to play, The two men, Io and Ae, told Naime, "You a certain landing-place. against you next year-Mahuru Mark." will come here to us on the second day." Then we started to walk to the inland, to At the top of the letter is a drawing of a When the man came in that day there were a little village called Tabata'ta. (That was cricket bat, and the worda " Rea Mea, please, plenty of Kangaroos in those places where in the district somewhere near the Dutch 100." J. R. 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